John McCloy
The American who let the Nazis rebuild Germany
John McCloy freed Hitler’s favourite industrialists. Their firms still dominate the country’s economy
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
Bring back the Law Lords
Tony Blair’s introduction of a US-style Supreme Court has served to undermine the supremacy of Parliament
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
Plain Janeites
For all their admirable dedication, keepers of the Austen flame cannot be so protective
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes